Improvement in the modes of siding boot-legs



G. G. PARKER. Modesv of Siding Boot-Legs. N0.140,726. Patentedluly8,1873.v

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IMPROVEMENT IN THE MODES OF SIDING BOOT-LEGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,726, dated July 8, 1873; application filed June 17, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE (J. PARKER, of the city and county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Mode or Process of Siding Boots by Hand;

' and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings forming a part of this specification, and. in which Figure 1 represents a side view of so much ofa boot-leg turned and in process of being sided as is necessary to illustrate my improved process. The clamp device is not shown, as that is the same as commonly used by boot-makers; and Fig. 2 represents a side view of so much of a boot-leg turned, clamped, and pricked ready to be sided, as is necessary to illustrate the most improved plan or mode of siding boots by hand used prior to my present invention.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to use and practice the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings, the part marked A represents one-half of a boot-leg, that part which forms the back of the leg when the boot is finished; B, the front part; and O, the welt, which is arranged between the edges to a and la b of the parts A and B before they are sided together.

Boots are sided in two ways, viz., by hand and by machinery. The best work is done by hand, and the plan most generally regarded as the best, prior to my invention, is shown or illustrated in Fig. 2. This latter plan consists in first arranging the parts A and B together with the welts G in place; they are then placed on a table and all the holes 01 pricked by one operation, andbefore the parts are removed or disturbed a pair of suitable clamps, D, are fastened or secured together, so as to hold the parts A, B, and O securely in place. The leg is then taken to some suitable' stand and the siding-seams stitched by hand. In this way it will be seen the holes are made for the operationwhile the parts are held in place until the siding is completed.

My invention is designed to obviate the practical objections to this plan.

In the first place I sew the parts A, B, and 0 together by means of a machine, using a thread for such purpose that can be easily withdrawn. The boot-leg is then placed in a common clamp and the operator commences and pulls out more or less of the stitches e, and then fills the holes by hand-stiches f. More thread is then withdrawn and the hand-sidin g progresses until both side seams are completed.

It will thus be seen that by my invention the necessity of the clamps D, which are very cumbersome and objectionable, is entirely obviated, while at the same time it enables the manufacturer to secure good and accurate hand-work by even comparatively unskilled workmen and boys and girls can be employed to do work which, by the common mode, required the services of a skillful man.

The principle advantage over the process of first pricking and clamping the parts, as illustrated in Fig. 2, may be stated thus: First, the work can be stitched and then laid one side or carried into the country to be completed by hand, and that, too, without the great expense and inconvenience which attends the use of metal clampsD; second, it thus aifordsa remunerative class of work to grown persons, and even boys and girls, who live so far away from the large boot-shops that they cannot go there to work; third, nothing but the common machinery in use in the manufactories is required to prepare the boot-legs for hand-siding, afterwhich the work can be done on the common clamps found in all boot-shops where common repairing is done; fourth, the holes are more perfect and open, since the blank threads or stitches e are only withdrawn as fast as the workman puts in the permanent stitches f; fifth, by my plan, too, a boot can be seamed up with any size of aw], any length of stitch, and any shape of pattern, of front or back, which any manufacturer may choose, and all at no extra expense, whereas, when the pricking and clamping machines are used, a complete set of clamps, awls, awl-plates, and beds must be used for every difierent shape of pat tern, length of stitch, or size of awl.

Having described my improvement, what I claim therein as new and of my invention, the holes thus made, as and for the purposes and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isdescribed.

The improved mode or process above de- GEORGE U. PARKER. scribed of siding boots, consisting offirst sewing the side seams with a blank thread by Witnesses: machinery and then Withdrawing it and in- THOs. H. DODGE, serting the permanent stitches by hand in E. E. MOORE. 

